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託

tuō

trust, rely on

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

乇 sound,meaning component

乇  Sound Meaning component

tuō, zhé

  

to depend on

Evolution

託 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
託 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
託 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
託 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
託 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

讬 (託) 

tuō

entrust, rely on; commission; variant of 託|托[tuō]

托 (託) 

tuō

to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee

Most common words with 託
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拜托

please!

托

prop

委托

to entrust

摩托车

motorbike

托管

trusteeship

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤak

thak

tuō

entrust


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 67.5957% of movies

426th most common character in movies

799th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

讬托

Unicode

U+8A17

Shuowen

“託，寄也。从言，乇聲。”


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